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Stories from Aulus Gellius
EDITED FOR SIGHT READING
BY CHARLES KNAPP, Ph.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN, BARNARD COLLEGE, NEW YORK
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The Noctes Atticæ of Aulus Gellius is a representative work,
since it not only reflects perfectly the nature of the subjects
which engaged the attention of the literary men of the second
century A.D., but also forcibly depicts the spirit in which
their labors were prosecuted. Of especial interest and value
are the numerous quotations from early writers whose works are
no longer extant. For such portions as yet remain of the oldest
Latin literature, we are almost wholly indebted to quotations
by various grammarians. In this connection the obligations of
Latin scholarship to Gellius are far from small. Fully two
hundred and seventy-five authors are mentioned or directly
quoted in his work, while the number of individual works cited
is twice or thrice as large. In giving these quotations from
the older writers, he often adds information concerning their
careers, or their works, and in this way his contribution
to our knowledge of the history of Latin literature is very
valuable. For example, practically all that is known of the
life of Plautus, the greatest comic poet of Rome, is derived
from the third chapter of the third book of the Noctes Atticæ.
The commentary gives sufficient assistance to enable such
students to read the selections as rapidly and intelligently
as possible, and without the need of any helps beyond those
furnished by the book itself. The text, in point of language
and spelling, is in the main that of Hertz, as given in his
critical edition. Throughout the book all vowels known to be
long have been carefully marked.
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